BEIRUT: Polls opened Wednesday for expats to cast their ballots in the Syrian presidential election, causing huge traffic jams around Beirut as voters flocked to the embassy in suburban Yarze.
The most congested roads were in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Sayyad roundabout to the north and Dahr Baidar to the east.
The Central Committee for Syria’s Presidential Elections at the Foreign Ministry had urged expats to head to Syrian embassies in their countries of residence Wednesday between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. “to practice their constitutional right to choose their president.”
Syrians living inside Syria are due to vote on June 3.
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